Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (D) isn’t ruling out authorized motion towards Donald Trump after the GOP presidential nominee shared a bonkers story that concerned him and Brown nearly experiencing a helicopter crash.
Brown, whom Trump named within the wild story at a rambling press convention earlier this month, has disputed the previous president’s claims that he joined him in a helicopter and denied that he advised Trump “terrible things” about Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Brown dated within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
“If he retains it up, in some unspecified time in the future, I’m going to offer him a style of his personal conduct,” Brown told CBS News on Friday, including that “any person has bought to verify” Trump “stops mendacity.”
The previous San Francisco mayor additionally introduced up Trump threatening to sue The New York Instances over its coverage of the helicopter story.
In a separate Times report, Trump spoke with the outlet’s Maggie Haberman, saying he “vehemently maintained” that he was within the helicopter with Brown after they skilled an emergency touchdown, regardless of Brown’s denial, and that he was “most likely going to sue” the Instances.
“If he sues The New York Instances for printing that I stated he lied, I’m going to sue him,” Brown advised CBS Information.
HuffPost has reached out to the Trump marketing campaign, which was not instantly out there for remark.
The replace from Brown comes after Nate Holden, a former Los Angeles Metropolis Council member who served as a California state senator, told Politico that he believes Trump confused him with the previous San Francisco mayor.
The previous president hasn’t shared the helicopter story since Politico printed its report earlier this month.
Holden, in a telephone name with the Times on Saturday, stated Trump needs to be “held accountable” if he’s “propagating a lie.”
“I’m 95 years previous, and Willie is 90, and he made the belief we wouldn’t be right here anymore, and no one would problem it,” the previous councilman stated. “Properly, we’re alive and properly.”
On Saturday, Brown spoke with reporters in San Francisco about Trump’s claims and acknowledged that it’d “be unhealthy” for his repute if he was on a chopper with Trump.
“That’s a nasty place to be, significantly with a man who’s been convicted 34 occasions,” Brown stated, according to San Francisco’s KRON-TV.
“Nobody is aware of why he selected a helicopter — it was probably the most surprising place to place me,” he added.
